Monday 16 November 2015

funny

This is daughter Angela she took a selfie. She often takes photos like this one, showing herself taking a tongue in cheek view on life. I laughed when I saw it.and just had to scrap it

Friday 13 November 2015

Christmas is coming

This was bare MDF. From Fernli designs. They do oodles of lovely things. I gesso-ed it then painted it and there spray glittered it, then added fine glitter to the snowflakes. I did the same with the top star.Plus added gems And the snowman is coloured and painted and glittered and glued on. The glitter doesn't show so good in the picture nor the gems on the start. I so enjoyed making this.

Sunday 8 November 2015

Leo and stash busting

This is a page showing Leo my dog. I went through my stash today and I found things I have had for years and I mean years. So, I have set myself a challenge , that is to use up the old stash by the end of 2016! Now there's a huge tub so I need to get going and scrapping and making cards with this stuff. Wish me luck this page made a start on using ribbons but I only made a slight tiny dent. But at least its a start!

Thursday 5 November 2015

its been a whlie

Its been a while since I updated my blog. Not that I think many are visiting but hey ho. If you are seeing this please leave a comment so I know you popped in to say hi!  These are some of the last pages I made. I am so enjoying scrapbooking again. I think having the like forever kit has helped  re light my scrappy fire!



Monday 21 September 2015

Courtney

This is a page made for a UKS challenge. I was hosting that week. I asked peeps to use one photo, a a4 sheet of floral patterned paper and red and pink and a flower cluster. Its a photo of Courtney one of my granddaughters.

couple more.



Friday 28 August 2015

latest scrapping

Three new pages. I am enjoying using the like for ever kits. The middle page is made from papers from the last kit. the top one is using brushos which is  different style from my norm. and the last is of son Paul.



Friday 21 August 2015

altered box

This is a box I have had in the cupboard since I did a swap on UKS at Christmas 2014! You had to send a bare box and some things that could be used for altering. Old newspapers maps. photos, magazines, stamped images Etc. I thought it was time I got this box done. Not using the mixed media pieces I was sent but using my stash. Never altered a box before so I am pleased the way it came out. I used stencils  and modelling paste, spray inks and mdf pieces from Fernli. I can recommend them for great products and prices and service. I also used gems and flowers and a butterfly. and gliding waxes. A owl had to be included has Kevin loved owls and I want to use this box to store the personal stuff I have of Kevin's. His wallet, a belt, fave tie  etc.

Sunday 9 August 2015

afternoon tea

Yesterday was a great day. I had been pondering for months about having a tattoo. Yesterday I did it! My two daughters took me to a afternoon tea at a hotel in the Lakes and a bar-b-que finished off the day. I just had to do a page showing the process of the tattoo. These are photos of the afternoon tea.. keep visiting my blog has a picture of the tattoo will follow soon, My birthday isn't until Sept but my daughters took and chance to surpirise me with a early slice of birthday cake just has they did three yeas before at the same hotel.



Sunday 2 August 2015

Courtney

This is a page on  my granddaughter Courtney. She is all grown up now, but I have heaps of family photos that I want to scrap. I haven't always scraped so theres a back log! :)  Here Courtney is 5 1/2  months old. Such a cutie.

Saturday 25 July 2015

Christmas in July challenge

Over on Facebook there is a closed group called Victoria Marie. There is a weekend challenge on there called Christmas in July. So a page on Christmas in the middle of  summer Not everyone's cup of tea! I had a photo I love of granddaughter Chloe taken last Christmas . Chloe was going to a uni Christmas party and they had to dress up. Chloe looks so cute and adorable. The picture had to be scraped, and what better time then now!

Friday 24 July 2015

Chloe

this is one of my granddaughters Chloe. Decided to use some mixed media on this lay out. There are some close ups of the details.




Wednesday 22 July 2015

Santa

I need to upload some scrapbook pages, but this card is already scanned into the laptop; only 18 Fridays until Christmas LOL

Sunday 12 July 2015

drawing practice

Nothing on telly so picked up a pencil and thought I would try to draw . I hope I am getting better at drawing faces. Still having trouble getting the nose right and I would like to get more "Life" into the eyes still, they say practice makes perfect, so best keep practicing then!

mixed media

I am so enjoying getting messy with mixed media and art journaling. And I am so excited that I have booked to go on a retreat next March . We go to Hothrope Hall in the woodlands. I say we has this is a group of lovely ladies I have met via Facebook
. None of us have ever met and the common factor is we all have a scrap-booking kit from Like For Ever. Which is amazing, if you scrapbook and are looking for a kit each month you can't do better then check them out!

Saturday 4 July 2015

the last Edwardian girl and mixed media

This is the last Edwardian girl pattern from the set. I am well started on Christmas cards now.
The next is mixed media. I am really getting into the flow of this now. It's a feeling like being back at school has a little kid, you know, Put on Dads old shirt and those non spill paint pots thick brushes and go for  your life! It is like letting go to my own restrictions. I can be messy, things don't have to be placed here and there just so I can add and add till I'm happy. I can do so much, can't think what else I want to add so walk away and come back add later. My hands are full of paint and glue and other lovely mucky stuff but it washes off. Ok some easier then others but it will wash so I don't care! If my fingers  look like a rainbow well, rainbows are pretty! I can feel the joy in creating that's the whole point! and if people don't see the good in it well, art is a matter of opinion. isn't it? I used modelling paste, paint. Deep impression embossing and beads  and correction fluid on the mixed media. I love both crafts! I love all crafts!. so I am off to scrapbook..Enjoy your day.




Thursday 2 July 2015

more stuff

Two scrapping pages and a birthday card I made for my daughter. she may be all grown up but she loved the Cheshire cat!



Wednesday 1 July 2015

Edwardian girls

Two Christmas cards! yes I know its only June but parchment cards take time to make. There is another in the set which I am in the process of making. Judith Maslen is the designer of these and I love her patterns. They are delightful to work. These are coloured with Prismacolour pencils not my fave has they are lovely and creamy but to sharpen they can be a pain! has the leads are so soft.

Sunday 28 June 2015

misleading sorry

I am so sorry that the title of this blog is a bit misleading. I started out just blogging parchment stuff and now I am brave enough to show other crafty-ness too. So, I hope you will enjoy the blog and even if you don't do all or any of the crafts listed I hope you enjoy looking at what I created!I will be blogging more parchment as well has other things! Cheers

RAIN!Again!

I am getting very fed with the weather. More liquid sunshine today in my part of Cumbria! It is getting beyond a joke now. Walking the dog this morning I came home and got changed out of dripping clothes has I was soaked to the skin, even if I was wearing a parka! So, getting into mixed media and the like as I seem to be doing, I came up with this page. June is almost over and we are past the longest day so hopefully at some stage in July we will get some sort of summer. Says she who is looking up to the sky thinking "someone please turn off the tap and turn the heat lamp on!"

Saturday 27 June 2015

art journalling and mixed media

For a while I have had the odd dabble into the world of art journals. I thought it was time I stopped dabbling and really dipped my toe in a bit deeper. Showing you these really is getting in deeper! But has a friend told me the other day "we all have to start somewhere!" I brought a book by Janet davenport that hopes to teach me how to draw faces. These are my first two efforts. The third picture is my very first dabble into mixed media. So it seems I am spreading my crafty wings!



Thursday 25 June 2015

scrapbooking

here is another page. it is for a 8x8 album I am doing in memory of my hubby Kevin. One page is us together and then a page of him alone. Doing this album has been far from easy but at times healing. Then there have been times I needed to walk way from it has it was too much to handle emotionally.

Tuesday 23 June 2015

latest work

More parchment pieces, I don't seem to have made so many parchment pieces up to now. I have been scrapbooking instead. I shall always go back to parching its my first love.


Sunday 14 June 2015

another card

I made this today.In fact I made another one from the same pattern which had all white work and golden bells. Sorry picture is on my tablet and not this laptop.

Monday 8 June 2015

sunflower

I made this today, coloured with blend-able pencils. I have had this Florence Holmes pattern for ages. I have not been well but today felt a tad better. Has long has I don't eat I don't get the tummy pains! :(

Sunday 31 May 2015

scrapping

 these were both made with a UKS challenge in mind. i love doing the weekly and monthly challenge. Sometimes, well a lot of the time it make me think outside the box.

Wednesday 27 May 2015

been a while


it has been a while since I posted. these are two pieces I have made in that time. I have also been scrapbooking and improvements to the garden so its been busy times.

Tuesday 7 April 2015

ladies

I need to take a photo of the bride but she is on the far left. All the ladies are done now. I need to make another bride for my daughter! So, not quite finished yet LOL

Monday 23 March 2015

scrapbooking

I also love to scrapbook. These pages are of some of my wonderful family Chantel my granddaughter and then my daughters Karen and Angela and Angela on her own. I love my family so much and I so enjoy keeping the memories in this way.


more parchment


The card is one I made for my lovely granddaughter Chloe on her 19th birthday! The doll is the latest I have completed. She is called Primrose. I now have two more to do then I have made them all and one of those is nearly done!